Koettavat

Koettavat is a Finnish verb form meaning "they try" or "they are attempting." It is the present tense, third-person plural form of the verb koettaa, which means to try or to attempt.

Morphology and usage: The base verb koettaa combines with standard Finnish present-tense endings. The full present tense paradigm is koetan, koet, koettaa, koetamme, koetatte, koettavat. Koettavat is used with plural subjects and describes ongoing or planned efforts. In everyday language it can be interchangeable with yrittää, though koettaa can carry a nuance of testing or experimenting in some contexts.

Examples:

- He koettavat löytää tien. (They are trying to find the way.)

- Yritykset koettavat parantaa tuotteita. (The companies are attempting to improve the products.)

- He eivät koeta löytää ratkaisua. (They do not attempt to find a solution.)

Notes: In Finnish, negative present forms use ei with the same stem, so you can say ei koeta or ei koettaa depending on construction, but a common form with plural subjects is "he eivät koet" or more naturally "he eivät koettavat"? The standard negative construction is ei koeta for the singular and ei koeta for plural contexts when followed by an object; in practice, you will most often hear ei koeteta or ei koettaa with additional context, such as ei koeta löytää ratkaisua. For plain statements about multiple actors, ei koeteta is more typical.

Related forms: A closely related participial form is koetettavat, the passive participle plural meaning "to be tested" or "to be tried," used as an adjective (koetettavat tuotteet = products to be tested).